The role of dislocation walls for nanoindentation to shallow depths

International Journal of Plasticity

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 281-301

  Cordill, M J ^a,b   Moody, N R ^c   Gerberich, W W ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal plasticity; Cyclic loading; Dislocation; Mechanical testing; Metallic materials

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC LOADS; ELECTRIC LOAD SHEDDING; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL TESTING; NANOINDENTATION; PLASTICITY TESTING; PLASTICS; POWDERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ACTIVATION VOLUMES; CRYSTAL PLASTICITY; CYCLIC LOADING; DISLOCATION; DISLOCATION WALLS; DISPLACEMENT CURVES; DYNAMIC LOADINGS; LENGTH SCALE EFFECTS; LOADING RATES; METALLIC MATERIALS; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; NANOINDENTERS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION MECHANISMS; PLASTIC INSTABILITIES; REINITIATION; SHALLOW DEPTHS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC LOADINGS; YIELD EXCURSIONS;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

EID: 55549140840     PISSN: 07496419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijplas.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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